Page 20 of Sweet Sin

“Savannah, you tell me then. Do we need to leave? For your safety?”

My lips tremble. “To be honest, Falcon, I don’t know.”

“Do you think this is someone from your family?”

“No. They may be mad at me for leaving, but they would never see me harmed.”

“A rival gang then,” Falcon says.

“Gang?”

“Family. Whatever you call yourselves. This isn’t much different from how it was on the inside, Vannah. You take care of your own, and you take out anyone who fucks with your own. Seems you and I have a lot in common.”

I say nothing.

I don’t talk about my family or their business. To this day, Gert and Jordan have no idea. I was good at my job as a parole officer. I looked the other way when I had to, and with luck, I didn’t have to do it that often.

Falcon meets my gaze head on, his eyes full of dark fire. “All right. Then you tell me, Vannah. Do we stay? Or do we hightail it out of here?”

I don’t even have to think about it. I vow to protect Falcon. He won’t go back down on my watch.

“We get the fuck out of here, Falcon.”

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FALCON

That’s all I need to hear.

I don’t have time to go into my house and get cash out of my safe, I don’t even have time to get my car and hightail it out of here.

But luckily, I know this land. I know it better than I know the back of my own hand.

My brother Hawk would help me, but I won’t drag him into this.

But I don’t have any qualms about dragging Leif Ramsey into it.

Fucker didn’t even visit me in prison.

But he’ll help me now. He has to.

I grab both guns, make sure Carlo is still breathing, and then I take Vannah. We head out of the yard, the dogs following.

“What are we going to do with them?” she asks.

“There’s a safe house about three miles from here.”

“A safe house?”

“Yeah. Hawk built it after I was sent away. Just in case.”

“Just in case… What?”

“Does it matter? Can you walk three miles?”

“Yeah, I can do it.”

“Good. We’ll be going through some wet areas, but you’ll be all right. We’ll take the dogs with us, and I’ll make arrangements for them once we get there.”

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